Dr. Vijayan Ganesan

Educational Qualifications

• FSCAI (USA)
  Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
• CCEBDM 
  Certificate Course in Evidence Based Diabetes Management (ADA Accredited)
• MRCP (UK)
  General Medical Council (GMC) Registration with License to Practice
  Reference No: 8095658
• DM (Cardiology)
  Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology (SCTIMST)
  Trivandrum, India
  2017 – 2019
• MD (General Medicine)
  R.G Kar Medical College, Kolkata, India
  2013 – 2016
• MBBS
  Govt Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, India
  2005 – 2011

Clinical Expertise

• Complex coronary interventions — LMCA, CTO, bifurcation lesions (4,500+ angiograms, 1,500+ angioplasties as primary operator)
• Advanced coronary imaging and physiology — OCT, IVUS, FFR, iFR guided interventions
• Atherectomy and device-assisted interventions — Rotablation, Orbital Atherectomy, IVL, ELCA (400+ cases)
• Structural heart interventions — TAVI (20 cases, primary operator), Mitral TEER (assisted)
• Endovascular procedures — EVAR, peripheral interventions (antegrade and retrograde)
• Electrophysiology — Permanent pacemaker implantation (100+), Left Bundle Pacing (15), ICD (25)
• Device closure — ASD closures (30), Balloon Mitral Valvotomy (assisted)
• Vascular access closure — Perclose Proglide (50+), Angioseal (25+)

Accomplishments

Affiliations and Memberships

Present position

Honors and Awards

• First Prize – Indian Coronary Conquest 2026 (Ranked 1st out of 600 presentations)
• Gold Medal – Challenging Case Presentation, 16th Asia Pacific Vascular Intervention Course, December 2024
• Best Case Award – AICC Complication Course, December 2025
• First Prize – Heart Failure Association of India Best Dissertation Award, 2020
• First Prize – Cardiology Quiz, 3rd National Heart Failure Conference, Cardiology Society of India, July 2019
• First Prize – Scientific Paper Presentation, 3rd Annual Conference of Society of Coronary Imaging and Physiology (SCIP), October 2019
• First Prize – Paper Presentation, Annual Conference of Interventional Cardiology Council of Kerala (ICCK), August 2019
• Best Case Award – 26th Annual Conference, Indian College of Cardiology, September 2019
• First Prize – Dr. Rani Ghosh Memorial Inter-Collegiate Quiz Competition, 2016
• Second Prize – Challenging Case Presentation, Indian College of Cardiology – Kerala Chapter, July 2025
• Second Runner-Up – AV Gandhi-SCAI Award for Best Thesis Presentation in Cardiology, 2020
• Third Prize – Challenging Case Presentation, CHIP (Complex High Risk Intervention) National Conference, August 2025

Editorial Work and Reviewer

Innovation

Associated Publications

Research and Publication

Randomised Controlled Trials — Principal Investigator

• TIME-HF: Team-based collaborative care model, facilitated by a mHealth-enabled and trained nurse, for management of heart failure in India. Parallel group, open label, multi-centric cluster RCT. Funded by Wellcome Trust UK. Completed 2-year follow-up.
• ACROSS: Affordable Cardiac Rehabilitation: An Outreach Inter-Disciplinary Strategic Study. International Study with investigators from the UK, including Prof. Rod Taylor, University of Glasgow. Funded by NIHR UK.

Publications

• Team-based collaborative care model for management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in India (TIME-HF): study protocol. Panniyammakal Jeemon et al., including Vijayan Ganesan. Wellcome Open Research 2023; 8:197. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19196.2
  
•  No clubbing in the fingers, only in the toes: patent ductus arteriosus and reversed shunting. Vijayan Ganesan, Viswanantha Kartik, Ajay Alex. The Lancet 2022; 400:522. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00792-9.
• Pulmonary artery air embolism after permanent pacemaker implantation. Vijayan Ganesan, Umesan Chirammal Valappil, Placid Sebastian, Anilkumar Mannambeth Karikkan. BMJ Case Reports 2022; 15:e249673.
• Tirofiban-induced diffuse alveolar haemorrhage. Bryan Sebastian, Vijayan Ganesan, Placid Sebastian. BMJ Case Reports 2024; 17:e256335.
•  Infected Pseudoaneurysm with Necrotising Fasciitis Following Femoral Artery Catheterisation. Anilkumar Mannambeth Karikkan, Vijayan Ganesan et al. JCDR 2022. https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2022/58798.17192
• Rare cause of complicated prosthetic valve endocarditis. Priyadarshini Arunakumar, Vijayan Ganesan et al. Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2018; 34(3):432–434.
• Herpes Zoster Infection Involving Mandibular Division of Trigeminal Nerve and Ramsay Hunt Syndrome with Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Patient. Vijayan Ganesan et al. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research 2016; Vol-10(6): OD05–OD07.
• Additional publications in Hindawi Case Reports in Rheumatology, American Journal of Medical Case Reports, American Journal of Clinical Medicine Research, European Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Research, and International Journal of Clinical & Medical Imaging.

Experience

• Senior Consultant – Department of Cardiology
  Rela Institute & Medical Centre (RIMC), Chennai
  Present
• Consultant – Interventional Cardiology
  Aster MIMS Hospital, Kannur, Kerala, India
  December 2021 – Present
• Consultant – Cardiology
  NIMS Hospital, Malappuram, Kerala, India
  December 2020 – November 2021
• Senior Resident – Cardiology
  Govt Medical College, Kannur, Kerala, India
  June 2020 – November 2020
• Junior Consultant – Cardiology
  Meitra Hospital, Calicut, Kerala, India
  March 2020 – May 2020
• DM Residency – Cardiology
  Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, India
  2017 – 2019

Teaching Experience

• Faculty for Cardiology postdoctoral trainees, Government Medical College, Kannur, Kerala, India (May 2020 – November 2020)
• Cardiology Program Coordinator for Internal Medicine Trainees (RCP approved program) at Aster MIMS Hospital, Kannur — conducts regular classes, journal club presentations, and case presentations (3.5+ years)

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